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Method of Residues

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Subtract the parts of an effect explained by known causes; attribute the remainder to the remaining factor.

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The truck weighs in loaded; deduct the known vehicle weight; the residue is cargo.

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Only as good as the inventory of known causes. A missing cause reappears as a phantom residue — this is how planets and errors both get discovered.